Christmas defeated Chanukah br once again last night br by a margin of three billion dollars br or so, but every time I hear br a Yiddish word like bupkes br in a movie (L.A. Confidential) br or when Oleg Cassini in that new play Jackie br calls a garment a shmatta, it's "good br for the Jews," as our parents used to say. br Meanwhile some things have br stayed the same; the drunken lout br in the street is still somebody's father.